Clifton group pushes co-op idea for closed IGA site

10:53 PM,
Feb. 18, 2014

The Keller?s IGA at 319 Ludlow Ave. closed in early 2011.

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The dream of attracting a full-service grocery store to Ludlow Avenue in Clifton isn't dead yet.

A neighborhood group is leading an effort to operate the shuttered Keller's IGA store as a grocery cooperative. The Clifton Cooperative Market steering committee is only a few months old, but its chairman, Adam Hyland, said he has had conversations with property owner Steve Goessling to buy the store.

The Keller's IGA at 319 Ludlow Ave. closed in early 2011. Goessling bought the nearly 22,000-square-foot store for $850,000 in 2011 in an attempt to reopen it, but he was unable to complete ...